Reminder: Components of Situational Awareness: Observation Perception Description Memory Human Behavior Deduction By now you should have a good handle on how to work on the skills of Observation, Perception and Description. Feel free to re-read our last article before diving in here. a. Memory. i. Tier One observation skills will not help you much ...

In this day and age, cars figure prominently in all aspects of life in America and that includes criminal activities. Whether in use by the criminal, the intended victim or just parked on the street, cars will be around most shooting incidents outside and the prudent practitioner of armed self-defense would do well to recognize this fact and take s...

August 16th was Primary Election Day in Wyoming. From our perspective, of the imminent crises facing the state, the nation, and the world, we draw several conclusions. For readers who are not residents of Wyoming, the political reality here, broadly drawn, is this. The state is overwhelmingly Republican. Most elective state and local offices are de...

"The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability." — Charles Darwin Thinking back to part 1 and our rule of 3's, the importance of establishing a shelter, in anything but the most temperate of climates, is unchallenged. Pay attention to the site selection considerations from part 1 particularly if you ant...

Many people, when they first dip their toe into the world of prepping, find themselves particularly attracted to one or two subjects and run with those for a good while before branching out. It is all too easy to find food preservation and storage fascinating and all engrossing. The same with planting a garden or getting your first chickens. Ditto ...

Sitting in one of my undergraduate classes at a much later stage in life than my fellow students, I was confused when the professor explained the tests we would take during this semester. What was an open book test? A young lady sitting next to me explained "It's a test you can use your text book for…" I was still confused, "What do you use the tex...

A Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the final step in a Security Analysis, based on information developed in all the earlier stages (Site Survey, Area Study, Threat Assessment, and External Assets Evaluation). It requires honest qualitative evaluation of strengths and weaknesses against various threats, from which we identify upgrades worth pursuing...

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill   With the tearing down of statues and the "cancelling" of books, tv shows, monuments and music, the unhinged Left has fully begun to rewrite history and create a disingenuous record of the past. They are emboldened by our continued silence and willingnes...

This is difficult to write, as it may be overcome by events before it is ever read. Si vis pacem, para bellum. The increasing pain and downside potential of what started as a limited, regional war in Ukraine between a second and a third-rate power include, as we've previously discussed: The backfiring Western economic sanctions against Russia;Massi...

There is a scene in the movie The Bourne Identity where actor Matt Damon reels off a bunch of detailed facts about people sitting in a restaurant to the female lead actress ("our waitress is left handed", "the guy at the bar weighs 215 pounds and knows how to handle himself etc). In another restaurant movie scene, actor Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock...